Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Mid-Week Post

As thousands of “outraged parents” gathered today in front
of 103 of the 107 MPP constituency offices across Ontario, organizers
are claiming this latest grassroots protest against the Liberal
government’s sex-ed curriculum is an “unqualified success.”

“I
think this is the biggest provincial protest in Ontario’s history,”
says Jack Fonseca, project manager of Campaign Life Coalition, which
organized the mini-rallies.

“Thousands
of parents and concerned citizens took to their MPPs offices today,” he
told LifeSiteNews, even though, he pointed out, this is a working day
for many people.

Now the only thing that schools will understand is this little sentence here: "I'm home-schooling."

Chiheb Esseghaier interrupted his own sentencing hearing with the
brief tirade, delivered at a yell, which included the assertion that it
is still the year 2014 and that he will be taken into heaven on Dec. 25,
when he is 33 years old.

Later in the same hearing Esseghaier hurled a plastic cup at a lawyer
appointed on his behalf, splashing water on his sleeve. He then stood
and yelled at the judge while waving his finger. “I am similar to the
prophet Jesus and the prophet Joseph,” he said, screaming. “I just throw
the cup at his face because he is lying.”

Esseghaier’s interjections punctuated an already tense hearing that
saw a second psychiatrist testify to Esseghaier’s mental health. Dr.
Philip Klassen told the court he believes the former PhD student,
originally from Tunisia, has psychotic symptoms that meet the criteria
for paranoid schizophrenia.

Reserves across Canada had until before midnight yesterday to show Ottawa the money.

As of yesterday, 26 of 70 First Nations in Saskatchewan had not
yet published financial information, including on-reserve business
transactions and salaries for elected chiefs, councillors and band
office staff.

But that changed Wednesday morning when the number of First Nations that had yet to report their records dropped to 25.

Pelican Lake First Nation waited until the final hour to publish
its financial information and made it just in time for the midnight
deadline.

It is one of six reserves in Canada that vanished from the list this morning.

Hey, remember when everyone was worried that the Pope would approve of, like, everything?

According to Canon Law,
there are a number of requirements of Catholic godparents, one of which
states that the candidate must be a Catholic who has been confirmed and
has received the holy Eucharist, and “who lives a life of faith in
keeping with the function to be taken on.” The Catholic Catechism says that godparents “must be firm believers, able and ready to help the newly baptized… on the road of Christian life.”

In his public statement,
the Bishop of Cádiz notes that Pope Francis, “in continuity with the
Magisterium of the Church” has repeated on several occasions that
transsexualism “is contrary to human nature.” It also references the
Pope’s encyclical, Laudato Si, which states that man “has a nature that he must respect and that he cannot manipulate at will.”

Air Koryo is the only carrier to have been awarded just one star in
rankings released recently by the UK-based SkyTrax consultancy agency.
More than 180 airlines are included in the five-star ranking system,
which is widely considered the global benchmark of airline standards.

Some experts and frequent Air Koryo passengers disagree with the
“world’s worst” title. The airline is a definitely a unique ride, but
fairly reliable, they say. The SkyTrax ratings are focused on service
and not safety.

“It’s a bit of a giggle, actually. They are clearly not the world’s
worst airline,” said Simon Cockerell, of the Koryo Group, a
Beijing-based travel agency that specializes in North Korea. The agency
has no relation to Air Koryo, though Cockerell and his tourists often
fly on the airline.

Cockerell said Air Koryo’s weaknesses tend to be the kind of thing
SkyTrax focuses on: cabin attendants tend not to speak foreign languages
very well, there is no in-flight magazine, the meals aren’t going to
win any awards and, on older planes, condensation from the cooling
systems tended to dampen seats and drip on passengers.